As root create {{filename|/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/55-myconf.pkla}} (or some other filename of your choosing ending with .pkla) containing:

As root create {{filename|/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/55-myconf.pkla}} (or some other filename of your choosing ending with .pkla) containing:

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[Storage Permissions]

[Storage Permissions]

Identity=unix-group:storage

Identity=unix-group:storage

Line 39:

Line 40:

ResultActive=yes

ResultActive=yes

ResultInactive=no

ResultInactive=no

−

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PolicyKit will notice the changes in the file and update its behavior without any action from you. Last thing to do is making every user that should have the ability to mount drives a member of the storage group:

PolicyKit will notice the changes in the file and update its behavior without any action from you. Last thing to do is making every user that should have the ability to mount drives a member of the storage group:

# usermod -a -G storage USERNAME

# usermod -a -G storage USERNAME

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Installation

You will also require gamin (a replacement for FAM, which required a daemon) to pick up events such as file and directories changes:

# pacman -S gamin

Volume handling

PCManFM is able to mount and unmount devices, both manually and automatically. This feature is offered as an alternative to CLI tools such as pmount. There are various 'up-to-date' versions of PCManFM (see below), and different volume handling strategies can be chosen.

Mounting with udisks

The current release of PCManFM is able to handle volumes through udisks. If you want to use this feature, make sure the D-Bus daemon is installed and running. See the D-Bus page for details. Note that you will most likely need to start dbus-launch from your .xinitrc or the autostart script of your window manager. Instructions on how to do so can be found on the D-Bus page or the page for your window manager.

Mounting with gvfs

If you prefer to use the Gnome Virtual FileSystem, the procedure is the same as before but requires additional packages:

(optional) gvfs-smb, gvfs-obexftp, gvfs-afc, etc. in order to support additional features.

Mounting as normal user

To be able to mount devices like removeable USB harddisks, flashdrives or DVDs as a normal user, the PolicyKit toolkit needs to be configured accordingly. The configuration files can be found in the subdirectories of Template:Filename. The rest of this section will show you how to configure PolicyKit to allow users belonging to the "storage" group to mount and umount temporary devices.

Note: Many users experience trouble mounting with lightweight windows manager and SLiM, adding ck-launch-session dbus-launch after exec in login_cmd option usually help

Note: Currently PolicyKit is configured to allow (un)mounting for users in group storage by default. Therefore this step is not necessary.

As root create Template:Filename (or some other filename of your choosing ending with .pkla) containing:

PolicyKit will notice the changes in the file and update its behavior without any action from you. Last thing to do is making every user that should have the ability to mount drives a member of the storage group:

# usermod -a -G storage USERNAME

If you want to grant other permissions instead of granting them to members of the storage group, or simply want to know what you were just doing, check out the manpage:

$ man pklocalauthority

Tips & troubleshooting

No "Applications"

# pacman -S gnome-menus

Trashcan not working?

# pacman -S gvfs consolekit

Make sure that you also add "ck-launch-session dbus-launch"(in this order) to Template:Filename. gvfs requires many gnome dependencies.

Not able to mount USB or other devices?

# pacman -S consolekit

Make sure that you also add "ck-launch-session dbus-launch"(in this order) to Template:Filename.

No icons?

If you are using a window manager over a desktop environment and notice you have no icons for folders and files, install an icon theme:

--desktop parameter not working / crashing X-server

Setting the wallpaper either by using the --desktop-pref parameter or editing Template:Filename solves the problem.

Terminal emulator advanced configuration not saved

Make sure you have rights on libfm configuration file:

# chmod -R 755 ~/.config/libfm
# chmod 777 ~/.config/libfm/libfm.conf

Available Versions

There are several versions of PCManFM currently available:

PCManFM2

This is the package in Arch's extra repository as "pcmanfm". The current git test version of it is available in the AUR as pcmanfm-git. More information is available on the LXDE Forum.

PCManFM 0.5.2

The legacy PCManFM (version 0.5.2, which is currently "pcmanfm-gtk220" in the AUR repository) is frozen and is no longer being maintained by the original author. This version uses HAL for mounting. More information is available on the project page.

PCManFM-Mod

PCManFM-Mod adds user-definable commands, other features, and bugfixes to the legacy version of the PCManFM file manager v0.5.2. This version builds and installs as "pcmanfm-mod" and will run independently of other versions of PCManFM you have installed on your system. This legacy version is still desired by some due to more stability than the newer 0.9.x rewrite in progress, less Gnome dependencies, and the use of HAL rather than gnome-vfs. PCManFM-Mod is available in the AUR as pcmanfm-mod and as pcmanfm-mod-prov (latter provides pcmanfm). More information is available at IgnorantGuru's Blog.